NASA Records More Than 6,000 Exoplanets and Counting

Since astronomers found the first planets outside our solar system in 1992 and the first planet around a sunlike star in 1995 ...
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4K Footage: James Webb Space Telescope's View Of Breathtaking Star-Forming Region NGC 604

NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) captured amazing views of star-forming region NGC 604. It is located about 2.73 million light ...
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The first shocking images of the new James Webb Space Telescope

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

How NASA's Roman mission will unveil our home galaxy using cosmic dust

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy's less sparkly ...

Earth-like planet that may contain water studied by NASA's Webb telescope

Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e may contain an atmosphere and liquid water, NASA scientists said. Research into the exoplanet is ...

NASA's Webb Space Telescope just found strange red dots that shouldn’t exist

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...

This radical new telescope design could upend the search for interstellar life

The world's greatest space telescopes have all been round. Now, a new rectangular design could turbocharge our search for ...

NASA Deep Space Network guides astronomers in the search for alien intelligence

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could ...

Exoplanet discoveries hit milestone 6,000 mark, NASA says

Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets were confirmed by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. Now, with the aid of Nasa spacecraft and ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captures glittering cluster of newborn stars

The James Webb Space Telescope captured an unprecedented look inside a vibrant and glittering cluster of newborn stars ...

Strange red dots in the early universe may be new kind of space object

When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...

NASA's tally of planets outside our solar system reaches 6,000

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...